Guild Wars 2

I heard few months ago that ANet wants to include boon hate into this game. Also, the most important part of any game is counter play.

I aggree with ANet that Corrupt Boon was a bit “one hit wonder” in a way that if you find low health opponent with every boon in the game, they are doomed. Specially if you focus an opponent in tPvP.

However, Corrupt Boon was the only “reliable” way to clear boons with condition necromancer, whenever it hit, and it was the only skill to completely counter Save Your Selves, thief stolen ectoplasm and rune of Lyssa (which kind of counters CB)

In its current state, Corrupt Boon is worse than Spinal Shivers which removes 3 boons every 20 seconds and gets additional damage from boons that are removed. Compared to CB which hits you for over 1600 damage on a condition spec if you don’t manage to transfer or consume the poison. You will get “extra reward” only if you manage to transfer the poison.

What I am trying to say is, that I understand that Corrupt Boon needed to be nerfed from its previous state, but I think reducing the amount of boons you can convert is not the way to do it. This may just get it to the underused tier for condition necromancers.

I think they should make Corrupt Boon to convert all boons into conditions, but instead of poisoning your self no matter what, Corrupt Boon should do about 200 damage to the user for every boon converted. This means that corrupting a full set of 9 boons will hurt you for 1800 damage instantly that cannot be avoided.

This means that you really need to think before you act, but if you are let unpreassured, you can cause terror upon your enemy.

I would like to keep Corrupt Boon as a powerfull and situational skill with a backfire, because that is the idea of corruptions.

If they wanted to nerf Corrupt Boon all they would have had to do was remove the Unblockable affect. Now it’s just very mediocre as the nerf it received was unwarranted due to the fact that it would sometimes just miss for no reason at all AND the amount of condition cleanses made it moot anyway except for when someone was over extended or facing death anyway.

Now it’s too weak to really amount to anything I think, and we still get poisoned for using it. Fail, imo.

Chesire.9043:

If they wanted to nerf Corrupt Boon all they would have had to do was remove the Unblockable affect. Now it’s just very mediocre as the nerf it received was unwarranted due to the fact that it would sometimes just miss for no reason at all AND the amount of condition cleanses made it moot anyway except for when someone was over extended or facing death anyway.

Now it’s too weak to really amount to anything I think, and we still get poisoned for using it. Fail, imo.

This. I stopped using it for Well of Power on my MM build because:
1. It doesn’t prioritize Stability, in fact Stability is the last thing it would target.
2. It still misses as much as ever.
3. We poison ourselves if it misses.
4. We poison ourselves…. -30% healing for 7.5 seconds isn’t worth it on a 40 second cool down to rip a few basic boons that go right back up after you rip them on most classes.

Just use well of power for now, it’s far more useful and doesn’t screw you over.

Corrupt Boon R.I.P . Not saying its completely dead, but I dont even really want to take it since there is no priority along with being 5 boons only.

WoC > CB in just about any case now. Get used to it.